The marvellous country, or, Three years in Arizona and New Mexico.: Containing an authentic history of this wonderful country and its ancient civilization ... together with a full and complete history of the Apache tribe of Indians .../ By Samuel Woodworth Cozzens. Illustrated by more than one hundred engravings.

SUPERSTITIOONS.
nature of which I could not clearly ascertain. With their own
hands they thoroughly clean it out, and afterwards, with
many mysterious ceremonies, place an elegantly ornamented
tenaja, or water-jar,- which has been previously prepared
by the hands of the high priest inverted upon the wall
THE SACRED SPRING OF ZUNLI.
siirrounding the spring, as an offering to the spirit, who is
supposed to make it his habitation until another one is placed
there for his convenience. Many of these tenajas remain
on the wall, while the ground around is strewn with fragments of those that have crumbled from the effects of age.
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